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NATO helicopters hover as smoke rises in the background at the hotel where Taliban insurgents attacked on the outskirts of Kabul. The Taliban said they were targeting elite Afghans and foreigners who use the area for "wild parties" before Friday prayers.

Thousands of supporters of Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate Mohamed Morsi gather in Cairo's landmark Tahrir Square to denounce a power grab by the ruling military, as the nation nervously awaited the results of the first post-Mubarak presidential election.

The coffins bearing the bodies of six children who died in a house fire are carried out of St Mary's Church after a funeral service. Mick and Mairead Philpott have been charged with the murders of their children Duwayne 13, Jade, 10, John, 9, Jack 8, Jesse, 6, and Jayden, 5.

More than 11,000 people protested against the restart of a nuclear power plant around the premier's official residence and Parliament after Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda decided to restart two nuclear reactors at the Oi nuclear power plant in western Japan.

Airlie Dodds, wearing a First World War nurse's uniform, walks through a display of 110 canvas army tents. The installation is to promote the exhibition "Nurses : From Zululand to Afghanistan" on display at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.

Young performers in traditional costume prepare to go on stage during the opening ceremony of the Duanwu festival, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, held at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park on the outskirts of Beijing. The festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, and has been an official holiday in mainland China since 2008, celebrated for three consecutive days.

Pictures in the News | June 22, 2012

Friday’s Pictures in the News begins in Afghanistan, where a bloody 11-hour siege of a lakeside resort outside Kabul ended Friday when police killed the last of a four-member team of Taliban assailants.. Seventeen hotel guests and workers, as well as one police officer, also died in the attack, according to the Interior Ministry.

Thousands of supporters of Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate Mohamed Morsi gathered in Cairo’s landmark Tahrir Square to denounce a power grab by the ruling military as the nation nervously awaited the results of the first post-Mubarak presidential election.

In England, coffins bearing the bodies of six children who died in a house fire are carried out of St Mary’s Church in Derby after a funeral service. The parents have been charged with the murders of their children Duwayne 13, Jade, 10, John, 9, Jack 8, Jesse, 6, and Jayden, 5. Placards supporting Julian Assange are shown outside Ecuador’s embassy where the Wikileaks founder has sought political asylum, in London. Assange remains inside the Ecuadorean Embassy after three nights.

Elsewhere, performers in traditional costume prepare to go on stage during the opening ceremony of the Duanwu festival on the outskirts of Beijing; an art installation entitled ‘Nurses : From Zululand to Afghanistan’ is on display at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra; and Czech fans react during a public screening of the EURO 2012 football match between the Czech Republic and Portugal in the Old Town Square in Prague.